SearchEngineLand: Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page
Friday, 21 November 2008, 11:36
SEO implications of Searchwiki: "Google emphasizes that changes made in the SearchWiki interface will have no impact on the traditional ranking of web pages. If you put your own site in the 1st position for your primary keywords, you’re the only Google user who’ll see your site at the top of the rankings. Your site will, however, be included when users click the “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link at the bottom of the page; that link leads to another page that shows what results other users have re-ordered, removed, or added."
Rebuilding Media: Transforming American Newspapers (Part 2)
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 07:32
Vin Crosbie: "[I]t is … ludicrous to think that the newspaper industry as it has operated for more than 400 years would not be extremely affected and stressed by those changes in not just how people can now access information but what types of information each person choose to access according to his preferences. This is why newspapers that have reacted merely by putting their printed content online are missing the point of the change."
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 09:56
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APIs, widgets, aggregation tools, social networking tools and personalisation at the New York Times.
Friday, 20 June 2008, 15:04
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Vin Crosbie: "Mass Media are wonderful at satisfying the very few common interests. Those practices are so-so at satisfying group interests … But they are frankly lousy at satisfying very specific interests."
News values in hyperlocal journalism
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 09:50
In hyperlocal news, one reader’s banality is another’s vital intelligence.
Writing on the first anniversary of his geotagging and hyperlocal news project Outside.in, Steven Berlin Johnson provides a great annecdote about how hyperlocal news coupled with geotagging can create enormous value for readers, even where individual pieces of information available may seem trivial to users who [...]
New German regional newspaper site is well worth watching
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 07:00
A much-hyped, much-anticipated and much-delayed, very “Web 2.0″ regional newspaper portal is finally set to launch late this evening in Germany.
While many regional publishers are pulling away from regional portals in favour of sites using established newspaper titles, the Essen-based WAZ newspaper group is going the other way, creating a new brand for its new [...]
Sunday, 8 July 2007, 11:16
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All 86 of Gannett’s US newspapers (except USA Today) have become "Information Centers" — 24-hour web-first newsrooms. They have desks responsible for local reporting, investigations, data, community and personalisation. But staff are worried about being
Saturday, 7 July 2007, 08:52
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Boaden: "Fewer than 25% of 15- 24s watch 15 consecutive minutes of BBC News on TV in any given week. … While 16-24s are watching less TV than their counterparts in previous decades, they spend three times as long using new media than over 25s"
Sunday, 1 July 2007, 12:09
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"It’s about time the industry faced reality: Registration doesn’t work. The information gathered is largely a database of lies. … Registration data is only useful to us when it’s also useful to the user."
Sunday, 24 June 2007, 15:03
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Richard Sambrook tells David Weinberger: "we don’t own the news anymore. And certainly the gatekeeper role that the media played is gone forever."
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 22:24
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"[T]he first half of My Telegraph, community, was about bringing blogs to people who had never tried them before, so the second half, personalisation, is about bringing news feeds to novices."
Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 18:13
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Dave Winer on television news personalisation: "The goal is to get the best news experience tailored to the interests of specific users."
